New install

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 17:14:50 UTC 2010



On 09/18/2010 10:03 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 16:05:11 +0000,
>    JB<jb.1234abcd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I think Fedora excludes too many users and their machines for no good reason.
>> Perhaps Fedora could change arch to i586 and have a bigger base of users and
>> testers as a result ? Starting with Fedora 14 ?
> Fedora doesn't have infinite resources. Not doing things to save resources
> is a good reason.
>
> There is a process by which people can support other architectures. If enough
> people that care enough to do the actual work involved with maintaining
> a secondary architecture work to make it happen, there could be an i586
> and/or i486 secondary architecture.
Well, what is involved in building of Fedora for the i386 arch
other than an automated script that sets the gcc options to
compile for the  i386 architecture?
Is that really all that much work?



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